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Hello from Qwerty
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Hello from Qwerty
January 4, 2017 at 9:52 pm
Just joined the forum a few minutes ago and look forward to participating. Years ago, if somebody asked me religion, I said I was an atheist. But that label only describes what I am not (a theist). It says nothing about all the other things that I am. So I started saying I was an agnostic, but gave that up too because it also only refers to what I'm not.

Today, if somebody asks me about religion or what church I go to, I tell them I'm an existentialist. I don't embrace every principle implied by that term either, but it's probably as close as I'll ever get with words to describing how I prefer to approach life. And you all know that words are only handles to carry the idea of some thing from one person to another--not the thing itself. I'll tell more of my story in that "conversion" forum.

Bill
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RE: Hello from Qwerty
January 4, 2017 at 10:06 pm
Welcome Bill!
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: Hello from Qwerty
January 4, 2017 at 10:13 pm
Hiya!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Hello from Qwerty
January 4, 2017 at 10:23 pm
Welcome!

I like telling busybodies I'm a secular humanist. It should make the True Believers among them scream "WITCH!", but so far I haven't evoked that response yet . .
 The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it. 




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RE: Hello from Qwerty
January 4, 2017 at 11:23 pm
Greetings.
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RE: Hello from Qwerty
January 4, 2017 at 11:30 pm
Welcome! Big Grin
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RE: Hello from Qwerty
January 4, 2017 at 11:32 pm (This post was last modified: January 4, 2017 at 11:33 pm by ignoramus.)
Welcome Qwerty!
Fuck it's easy typing your username! lol!
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RE: Hello from Qwerty
January 5, 2017 at 1:43 am (This post was last modified: January 5, 2017 at 1:44 am by robvalue.)
Hiya Bill, welcome Smile I hope you enjoy the forum!



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RE: Hello from Qwerty
January 5, 2017 at 4:59 am
I have a friend called 'Bill'. Are you him? I can't imagine there's two Bills in the world. Wink

Welcome.
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Hello from Qwerty
January 5, 2017 at 8:07 am
Welcome, whatever you are!
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